On Madhava Prasad
an overdue appreciation. Read the rest of the review here, or below: In Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence in South India, film studies becomes politics, but also society,…
Tag: Asia
Book Review: Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties by Becky Yang Hsu
In Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties, Becky Yang Hsu draws upon two microfinance projects in rural China in order to explore the social relations and cultural…
Creating a World Without Poverty?
By Hannah Feldman Sat on the floor of a small shared room on the outskirts of Metro Manila, Mae* and her sisters are hurriedly crafting necklaces, while their…
Book Review: Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair by Emma Tarlo
In Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, Emma Tarlo explores the hidden networks through which human hair circulates around the world, tangling together the local and the global through diverse…
Danish Tavern Serampore
Danish tavern decked up to start second innings in Serampore Ajanta Chakraborty| TNN | Nov 21, 2017, 04:53 IST KOLKATA: The double-storey Denmark Tavern, which was in a shambles till a…
Karen Tam opiumartifacts.
Opium dens taking over galleries has a perfect beauty. I was reminded telling a friend about this and thought it was time once again for another promo…
When the press covers news
Katie Sims / Sun Staff Photographer ROHINGYA Prof Urges Students to Consider Oppression of The Rohingya By Victoria Moore The Rohingya crisis has been termed a “textbook example of…
SHADOW OVER BURMA: THE ROHINGYA CRISIS IN CONTEXT
By Elisa Sandri In late August, alarming reports and harrowing images started to surface from Myanmar. It soon became clear that Rohingya people—a Muslim minority living in a…
Surplus value and care
D.D.Kosambi’s summary of Buddhist political economy circa 500bc. From ‘The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline’ 1964. (P113 1996 reprint by Vikas Publishi…
Statues – 1970 Kolkata.
Mrinal Sen’s great film Interview begins with a few shots of the removal of colonial statues from the Maidan in Calcutta, shipped off to a closed space in…
A Dyak Carrying Basket
The Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution holds a large ethnographic collection from Maritime Southeast Asia. This Dyak basket was collected not long …
A Japanese Packbasket
Here I present another of the Asian packbaskets that I examined in the ethnology collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. (See…
English heritage trinkets
Apparently on sale at National Trust sites are mugs with this marking underneath. Thanks Katherine S for the pointer. My view is to welcome this as an historically…
Death in Mazar-I Sharif
by Magnus Marsden The brutal killing of up to 140 Afghan Army soldiers on April 22nd at an army base located near the city of Mazar-i Sharif in…
Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10)
[A set of cuts that jettison the last underworked section of the book – residue of a previous plan, now offcuts in the sawdust.] Ethnography as a hobby or…
Who Is Ecotourism’s Winner – Nature, Culture or Capital?
by Sara Loh ‘Capitalism thrives on crisis. This is its engine of innovation and creativity’ – Sian Sullivan For neoliberal conservationists around the world, the environmental crisis has…
Snip – day three casualties. Kill your darlings. Draft paras that did not make the final edit
Of course the screen has long been a global industry with a global logistics, and every ‘international’ production – a movie, drama or news – involves battalions of…
Begum Jaan – trailer (remake of Rajkahini, রাজকাহিনী)
For those in need of an alternative to Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, in April 2017 we will get the Hindi film Begum Jaan, I hope soon also for a UK…
Bangladeshi Cinema and Tanvir Mokammel’s “1971”, a review of John Hood’s ‘The Bleeding Lotus’
:: Prepare yourself for trauma. John Hood’s book The Bleeding Lotus: Notions of nation in Bangladeshi Cinema (2015, Palimpsest) is not intended primarily as a gore-fest horror but…
Precarity as Freedom? Youth, Neoliberalism and the Dissolution of ‘Japan, Inc.’
by Shuto Fukuoka It would not be an overstatement to say that the Japanese youth of today are significantly foreign to the one a couple of decades ago,…
Locating Care within the Nascent Infrastructure: Renal Dialysis in Thailand
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Bo Kyeong Seo A new tertiary hospital building is under construction in Chiang Mai. / Photo: B.K. Seo When new epidemics hit…
Don’t Miss the Quilts of Southwest China Exhibition Opening at MMWC
While the coming week will be diverse and full as always, I have one big hope–that many friends, colleagues, campus citizens, and community members will come out for…
Marx in Algiers again
Of haircuts and Rhino coats… This is the worked up text of a talk I gave in Chandernagore in February 2016. The photo is one I’ve failed to trace…
Conference Report: 6th annual Asian Food Study Conference, Kusatsu, Japan
While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference that I found particularly useful and inspiring: the…